Join Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast for a lively discussion with Ashley Teague, visiting director with the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, on Wednesday, February 14 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Teague will explore the concept of theatre as an opportunity to be in conversation with an audience. Theatre can lift up ideas for change and hold up worlds we’ve never seen before. Teague believes the final moment of any play does not happen on the stage, it happens in the hearts and minds of the audience.

Conservation Foundation is pleased to have Ashley Teague at Bay Preserve as an Artist-in-Residence, in collaboration with FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. The program will be held at the foundation’s headquarters at Bay Preserve, 400 Palmetto Avenue in Osprey. Reserve online at www.conservationfoundation.com/teague or call (941) 918-2100 as seating is limited. Teague is directing The Rehearsal at FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. Visit www.asolorep.org for more information.

Teague is the Founding Artistic Director of Notch Theatre and a recipient of the Embark Fellowship Award for Entrepreneurship. She developed Talk It Out, which travels California creating community-engaged theater to change policy around the school-to-prison pipeline. As a creative content producer, she worked on Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls, and Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land among others. Recent credits: CHQ (Chautauqua Theatre), Side Show: The Musical (Trinity Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Brown/Trinity), Invasion! (Brown), Bean (Hollywood Fringe), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Lyric Theatre), Richmond (East Bay Center), Ajax (Theater of War), Halfway Home (Blank Theater). Learn more at www.Ashteague.com and www.NotchTheatre.org .

Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast saves land, forever, protecting those special natural lands that make this region extraordinary. Working with landowners, businesses, and government, Conservation Foundation protects the character and natural integrity of the bays, beaches, barrier islands and their watersheds on Florida’s Gulf Coast. A nationally accredited land trust, the Foundation purchases natural areas, holds land conservation agreements and educates for responsible land and water stewardship in Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte and Lee Counties. Learn more at www.conservationfoundation.com.